The images on the screens begin to scroll faster, the geometric patterns of the ancient language becoming increasingly intricate, silhouetting the feminine features of the inert construct's visage. The digital countenance takes on an expression of consternation, as if uncertain of its whereabouts.

Within the confines of the inanimate body, your perceptions are muted, muffled as if through a thick layer of gauze. It's not a familiar sensation, nor a pleasant one, forcing you to troubleshoot all active and passive systems. A muddle of corrupted data indicates some damage to your short-term mnemonic systems and diagnostic warnings inform you of an unexpected interruption of your hibernation cycle. Why were you in hibernation? The explanation seems to be contained in the bad memory sectors. Lacking clarity, you go back farther.

You are Xeno, Inheritor to the Lady of the Infinite Abyss, Mistress of the Undying Swarm and Reaper of the Earth. You are eternal, but right now you are exceptionally confused. Your surroundings seem to be of tau manufacture, but you can't recall coming to be there. As the diagnostic cycle concludes, strength returns to your limbs and you rise from your deathly slumber, revivified. Silent alarms begin to chime as you tear free of the many cables interfaced with your body.

What do?

Check for Drone.

>>8621740
Call out. Someone will notice we're away and investigate. Then we can peacefully talk our way out of this. For the Greater Good.

Search for drone and the tomb spyder.

um try to see where the data went that was being fed from us.

seems obvious that they are monitoring us somehow, call out, with unintelligable murmurs if neccisary.

>>8621740
Ask what going on

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

stand up and go to the window if there are tau out there preform the universal "roll down the window" motion.

Your calls, both audible and wireless, go unanswered. If Drone is anywhere nearby, something is preventing you from communicating with it - and the rest of your network, you realize! It's possible that you're far removed from your tomb, much farther than you would have thought possible. The alternative is that some sort of active jamming is in place, blocking your attempts to connect with your swarm.

A cursory analysis of the information siphoned from you appears to indicate that its being fed into an isolated network wholly dedicated to studying you! Unfortunately, as you attempt to trace back along the datastream, the connection is suddenly terminated from its source! Beyond the confines of your cell, you observe armored fire warriors moving into position, covering both the window and reinforced hatch with overlapping arcs of fire.

>>8621894
Hesitantly wave and see how they respond?

they are shooting the door?

Wave.
"Hello Shas'la. Can you care to tell me where I am?"

Pose in a nonthreatening way, do not aggress.

>I miss anything from the chat?

>>8621894
Goddamn Tau, we're fucked

>>8621921
No, I think they're just preparing if we try to come through it.

>>8621947
oh duh reading comprehension ftw

>>8621894
Oh good! I'm sure an official will be here shortly. Wait for him or her, and calmly explain that we'd like to know where we are and what's going on, and that we are prepared to offer our complete cooperation.

act as human er, Tau as possible, be non-threatening. Right now, they see us asbeyond redemption, not even Tau anymore, we have to prove otherwise (at least until they let down their guard a little)

If your passive stance has any impact on the masked fire warriors outside, you're unable to ascertain it - although you do perceive the electronic signal to energize the cell moments before a surge of power courses through the confined space! Arcs of electricity leap from every surface, lashing your body and sending a shiver through every one of your component nanomachines!

Roll 1d100

rolled 82 = 82

>>8622004

rolled 93 = 93

>>8622004
Crap.

rolled 86 = 86

>>8622012
>>8622019
Bugger me!

rolled 6 = 6

>>8622019
>>8622012
You suck

And Tau Quest's tradition of terrible rolls continues.

>>8622012
>>8622019
We're off to a fine start.

In true Tau Quest fashion.

>>8622012
and it begins

>>8622028
WHY DIDN'T YOU ROLL SOONER?

I so look forward to never rolling below an 80 as usual.

rolled 18 = 18

>>8622043
Don't worry, I'll roll next time. (Unless we die now.)

>>8622004
This does not serve the Greater Good!

enough playing nice lets make a hole in the back of the chamber and get the fuck out of here.

Staff to me!

>>8622069
The "Greater Good" is currently frying Xeno. I think it's excusable.

>>8622060
>I'll roll
>Unless we die
...Hehe.

rolled 99 = 99

We suck -__-

>>8622079
But they're destroying rare and irreplacable Archaeo-tech!

rolled 12 = 12

Now things are getting interesting.

rolled 75 = 75

Sorry I meant I suck

>>8622091
Disregard what I said earlier, I thought you were saying to not fight back and rushed off my response without checking.

>>8622091
Thinking like a gue'la again? Oh, dear...

Do we still have our wings?
god dammit!

>>8622012

You sink to your knees as the charge wreaks havoc on your systems, shorting out relays all across your body! Arcs of emerald soon join the electric blue as you slump forward, overloaded.

Damage control kicks in instantly, rerouting power away from damaged systems, causing you to spasm with the aftershock of your electrocution, but not before the blast door retracts to allow ingress of a pair of heavily-armored combat suits. The manufacture resembles the lighter stealth suit variants employed for reconnaissance operations, but you're unfamiliar with the specifications of the types now encircling you.

Roll 2d100 and declare an action.

Also a link to the IRC channel:
http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23Xeno&server=irc.mibbit.net

rolled 79, 3 = 82

>>8622118
Try to get them to realize that we're not hostile.

rolled 54, 93 = 147

RAPE THEM

rolled 65, 44 = 109

>>8622118
go limp

rolled 15, 4 = 19

>>8622118
cut through the floor

>>8622130
Wait, so one of them is going to attempt to make love to us and the other will try to shoot us?

>>8622147
This man has my vote!

rolled 31, 80 = 111

KILL SHIT

floor cut!

>>8622130
>Try to get them to realize that we're not hostile.
Why do you people do this?

>>8622130

You try to communicate your non-aggression, but the words won't come! Instead, your jaw works helplessly, raw noise emerging from your synthetic vocal chords. The armored fire warriors don't appear to be taking any chances and grab you roughly before you have time to reset your audio functions, hauling you unceremoniously onto the table while a gaggle of environment-suited engineers rush in to apply heavy-duty restraints.

Roll 2d100 and declare an action

try to talk to them, if they wanted us dead they would have killed us earlier

rolled 1, 43 = 44

>>8622118
go limp>>8622211

rolled 20, 68 = 88

>>8622211
Kill them all.

rolled 85, 58 = 143

>>8622211
Slice and dice!

>>8621738
That's actually really well drawn. More of this would be appreciated.

rolled 48, 99 = 147

get out of there!

>>8622222
Fagggggg

>>8622222
Kill shit.

rolled 40, 60 = 100

>>8622211
play time is over. now is. . .a time to kill.

rolled 30, 68 = 98

Struggle while pleading with them

Pretty artwork is pretty. That is all.

rolled 13, 53 = 66

>>8622222
go so limp we turn into a puddle again!

overload circuits

self destruct

fuck 'em all

rolled 39, 25 = 64

KILL SHIT UP

if they wanted us dead we could have been dead.

play along and then slice and dice!

>>8622309
Yesh!

did nobody read the >heavy-duty restraints

part?

Playing along means we become a science experiment. The only "slice and dice" that will be going on is the Tau hacking our systems and dissecting our physical shell.

>>8622222

You initiate a full reset, successfully bypassing the superficial damage done by the energetic field and allowing your nanites to set about bringing you back to fully operational status. Unwilling to reveal this sudden advantage to your captors, you withhold power from your extremities, giving the appearance that you are still disabled.

'So, the sleeper awakens,' a cold voice crackles over the intercom. 'I'm glad to see that you are operational, necron. There is much more that we can learn from a functional example of your technology than we could from a relic alone.

'Do not attempt to sway my warriors - it is not lost on me that you would attempt to adopt our characteristics in an attempt to manipulate us to your own vile ends. Know that we serve only the Greater Good.'

Why do you all want to kill them? Are full of the stupid? You show violence now, and they'll kill us. We're weak, now we're restrained, and we're in a place completely devoid of our servants. Alone. Now, I want to try to get out of this without violence because if it comes to fighting, with our rolls? I'm not sure we can win.

rolled 65 = 65

Explain our situation

>>8622336
check audio systems

ask about the video that they now have.

>>8622333
Or, they might be trying to restrain us so that we don't kill them! And with all you being violent dolts, I really don't blame them.

rule number one of tau quest do NOT roll unless asked to!

they now have the video of our necroization,
they know we were once tau.
what game are they playing?

>>8622333
someone doesn't know what disruption fields are capable of. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Disruption_Field

>>8622410
They might not have actually seen our memories. That was just us remembering, it probably came across as a bunch of numbers and symbols that they can't translate.

>>8622427
dammit.

I was pretty sure that it was viewed with video.

>>8622447
Which is why I suggest we try to explain ourselves and show the people in charge what happened. In Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

>>8622447
In the grimdarkness of the future, video file converters are non-existent.

>>8621738
I think we need to see Xeno oiling her body carefully and slowly

>>8622522
Go back to /v/, fag.

>>8622546
It beats this fucking quest.

rolled 37 = 37

just keep telling yourself that

>>8622583
Then get moving? Have fun and a nice night? See you around some other time?

>>8622004

The violation is palpable as rough hands replace the numerous data feeds, technicians bustling about your prone form to uplink you to the diagnostic system. Unbeknownst to them, you're processing hundreds of possible scenarios - many of which end with their unfortunate end at your hands. A number of possible attack plans spring to mind which minimize physical harm to broken bones and contusions, but these require a greater degree of finesse to achieve.

Scarcely giving you a moment to form a reply, the disembodied voice continues; 'your secrets will soon be known to us, machine, and in this way you will come to serve the Greater Good... but do not think that I won't order your destruction if you continue to resist.'

The first consensus of three or more will decide your next course of action.

>>8622650
DESTROYYY

>>8622336
Should we attempt to communicate?
If we do, try
"I too serve the greater good. While admit that my flesh is no longer of the Tau'va, my heart still beats to it's struggles.
I am Fio Korst'la Mesme."

lay waste to all but one

INTERROGATE!

rolled 50 = 50

KILL MAIM BURN

>>8622650
Cooperate.

>sleep naked cause it feels better
>kick the sheets and blanket off the bed so I can feel the cool breeze on my penis
>notice I left my door open
>don't give a fuck
>suddenly the next day at 9 am
>younger sister is creeping into my room
>pretend to be asleep but I'm eyeing her out of the corner of my eye
>she grabs FFX off my shelf
>she cant help but stare at my morning wood
>i make it twitch slightly
>she reaches her hand towards it ever so slowly
>suddenly she farts with all of a womans fury and her face turns red
>I instantly cum on myself thinking of nasty ass gas flowing out of my 14 year old sisters anus
>she quickly scoops up a bit on her index finger and tastes it while emitting a low "mmm..."
>she runs out of the room
>I get up and eat the rest of my cum

we need to escape this room we are in a place designed to hold us

>>8622650
Try to incapacitate without harm

>>8622650
DESTROY!
BLOOD AND THUNDER!

>>8622693
>>8622687
>>8622678
Ah, fuck guys.
DON'T DO IT SHAS

being mind raped is not an option

>>8622702
i bust out laughing at "i get up and eat the rest of my cum"

Time for some tender non tearin bone breakin combat, The commander here obviously won't listen to reason/anything-we-say.

rolled 2 = 2

Wait for them to restrain you, but before they knock you out again, say that you still serve the greater good.

Alright so incapacitate, but DO NOT KILL

Lol that's what I get for not refreshing. The "attempt to signal you're still with them in mind, if not body" still stands.

Also woo awesome roll.

>>8622751
THIS, WITH THIS ROLL

Also I think the BURN MAIM KILL was all one guy... maaaybe two.

You settle on a course of action before your absent host can finish his monologue, triggering your disruption fields with a thought and shattering your restraints in one smooth movement! The act of violence is so sudden that your captors scarcely have time to react, at least until you close your hand around the faceplate of the nearest technician and fling him into the next.

Roll 1d100

rolled 45 = 45

>>8622819

rolled 59 = 59

>>8622800
Meh, seems like a fairly even split to me. But it doesn't matter because violence consensus was reached first. Shas said in the chat that he's going with that one.

rolled 6 = 6

>>8622819

>>8622819

Can I use my 2 roll on raising a shield for yourself but then stating that you don't like to be restrained, but don't wish further violence?

>>8622840
Just as long as Xeno doesn't kill anyone

>>8622709
>>8622746
Thirded. Try to incapacitate. Also, if possible, leave one conscious for questioning.

>>8622824
Goddamnit, Anon.

At least it's under 50. We might not get completely electrofried.

rolled 2 = 2

>>8622819

>>8622876
>>8622843
>>8622751
SO MANY WASTED LOW ROLLS

shas: Passing, but not by a huge margin. Xeno makes a mess of the isolation lab!

Whoo Hoo!

>>8622858
I agree to leaving one /alive/.

But, seriously, trying fancy stuff with *our* rolls? None of this "hold back and not to really hurt them too bad :3" crap. If some extras survive, lucky for them, but I don't think we have the luxury of being selective about attacks.

rolled 4 = 4

>>8622824

The unarmored engineers fall before you like so much wheat before the scythe, their frail bodies unable to withstand the degree of punishment you deal out. You find your hooves beneath you again as the last of your victims goes limp in your grip, neck bent at an unnatural angle, leaving the two battlesuits between you and the door.

>>8622901

Dude. They're our own species. They're not ruthless evil crons.

>>8622901
THAT IS NOT OUR XENO

>>8622924
Fuck, we didn't kill him did we?

nah his necks just broken a few days in bed and he will be good as new

>>8622929
Wake-up call: THEY DON'T BELIEVE SO. *They're* not going to be holding back.

We need to be *alive* to serve the Greater Good.

>>8622948

In the grim dark future of 40k nobody dies

>>8622948
>Nah, brah, my neck has always been bent at an unnatural angle.

>>8622948
we killed him, but hey! We now have two more that will help guide us out now!

>>8622924

Rotary barrels spin up to speed and unleash a torrent of high-energy discharges in your direction as the battlesuits open fire! Plasma dances across the bulkhead and glances off your necrodermis, cutting through the fine silk of your raiments and singeing your hair.

Roll 1d100

Also why I didn't want us killing them: I distinctly remember Shas saying something about our starting to go insane would start once we started to kill sentients. So yeah. Guy who wants Flayed One bad end, looks like we're well on our way.

rolled 77 = 77

>>8622980

So much for resolving this peacefully

>>8622988
Oh for the love of...

>>8622988
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

rolled 15 = 15

>>8622980

Rip their guns and armor up.

>>8622963
Yeah, and we can survive way more than a bunch of fucking Earth Caste techies can. Way to go for the people who pose no threat whatsoever first.

>>8622988
Oh god this was my first roll too I am so sorry.

>>8622948
We might still be able to get one of the battlesuit tau to tell us stuff. Too bad we don't have any earth caste dudes left to give us the skinny on their research operation.

go for gold

>>8622995

Dammit, someone beat me in rolling.

At this rate we should switch success to high numbers

>>8622997
I didn't specify the targets, now did I? Apparently all of Xeno's mental simulations were made of DERP WASTE SUPRISE ATTACK ON LOWEST THREAT.

rolled 18 = 18

>>8622980

WHY DID WE KILL THE EARTH CASTE GUY?
Prepare for Heroic BSOD

>>8623002
Yeah, I'm sure they'll be in a mood to talk to us. And before you go on about forcing him to talk, remember that this is all being recorded and reinforcements are probably already on their way, and they guy might kill himself rather then divulge anything. So yeah.

Goddamit
THANKS FOR WASTING OUR SURPRISE ATTACK ON A BUNCH OF TECHIES!
whoever suggested that we kill them, fuck you!

This shit is hijacked. The majority was for PEACE. SHitty

This is bullshit.

>>8623061
Well, Shas did say first three decided actions.
Though that maim kill burn guy may have voted twice.....

>>8622988

Your chassis cracks and deforms under the onslaught of the combat-suited fire warriors, splitting apart as the plasma bursts chew your necrodermis to powder. The force of the repeated impacts forces you back, pinning you against the wall, far outpacing your body's ability to repair itself. Only then does the fire abate, allowing you to slide meekly to the floor.

Heavy hooffalls approach as the warriors approach. Your optics static, resynchronizing with your visual systems but leaving you momentarily blind to their advance.

Roll 1d100

rolled 36 = 36

>>8623086

rolled 78 = 78

>>8623086
Here goes nothing.

rolled 32 = 32

>>8623086

rolled 30 = 30

>>8623086

>>8623082
Well, I suppose "OMG SAMEFAG SAMEFAG BAAAWWW" makes a change from "OMG RAILROAD CHOO CHOO BAAAWWW".

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

>>8623095
about fucking time, jesus

>>8623098

STOP ROLLING

>>8623112
Wait, are we trying to roll high or low?

>>8623061
bullshit mind

>>8623108
BELIEVE IN ANONYMOUS THAT BELIEVES IN YOU

>>8623119
Low.

>>8623119
we want to roll low

>>8623120
Never again will this picture be so related.

>>8623119
Dark Heresy variant
Low is good

>>8623124
>>8623129
Ah, okay.

what does Shas do with blank rolls anyway? Choose the best option?

>>8623119
>The e-mail field is only shown on mouseover
>advicedog.jpg
>Roll 1d30 instead

>>8623140
its for how well we survive.

TAKE YOUR GAME INTO OUTER SPACE

>>8623140
He only asked for a roll, not an action. When he wants an action, we give it.

rolled 7751 = 7751

>>8623151

>>8623095

A pulse of viridian green discharges from your power core, washing across your body as it becomes hazy and insubstantial. Your assailants renew their fire, but the shots pass harmlessly through you, spattering against the bulkhead and allowing you time to effect repairs.

Declare an action and roll 1d100

rolled 4 = 4

>>8623200
SHOOT AT THEM

rolled 3 + 90 = 93

>>8623194
Am I doin' it rite?

Roll low people

rolled 44 = 44

>>8623200

Disarm and incapacitate one of them.

>>8623205
With what, moron?

rolled 26 = 26

>>8623200
TRY AND SAVE THE TECHIE

rolled 87 = 87

>>8623200

Kill the assailants.

rolled 1 = 1

>>8623205
STOP KILLING PEOPLE!

>>8623200
Do we have an escape route? Fire Warriors covering the door are presumably less of a threat than crisis suits, especially if we've done the Wraith phase thing.

>>8623218
we should still have a staff of light

rolled 39 = 39

>>8623200
THROUGH THE FLOOR!

rolled 21 = 21

PUNCH KICK SCREAM

rolled 32 = 32

>>8623221
I second this.

>>8623218
I like the way you think. With what indeed. We have no shooty weapons. Looks like we're going with 44 and incapacitate, since the 90 didn't declare an action.

>>8623231
Hey, a natural one!

>>8623205

>>8623249
Don't we have a staff that we can wave out hand and summon? Doesn't it shoot green beams of crackling doom?

>>8623217
THIS ONE
SINCE WE HAVE NO SHOOTY WEAPONS

You rise from the deck plate with fire in your eyes and wrath in your heart, the shaft of your staff of light materializing in your outstretched hand. The twined helix of the ancient weapon crackles with emerald lightning, coalescing near its apex to form a coruscating sheathe of lambent fire.

Your captors don't even have time to adjust their aim as you discharge the weapon twice, pulverizing their combat armor and sending them flying into the opposite wall. There, they fall to the floor, their life functions terminated.

Outside, the fire warriors brace for your assault.

First consensus of three or more decides your course of action.

rolled 61 = 61

>>8623278
Punch your way through the floor - lets find an alternate route out!

>>8623278
Check on the Techies!
See if we can save them!

>>8623278
Get the hell out of here and start making drones.

rolled 99 = 99

>>8623278

Look for alternate route of escape.

>>8623278
Prepare for their assault.

rolled 21 = 21

>>8623278
Rip your way through a wall. The sooner we get out of combat, the sooner we can assess what's going on and get our swarm back.

rolled 15 = 15

Attempt to take one hostage. Negotiate.

stay put. i dont trust the rolls

cut through the floor

>>8623278
Abscond.

>>8623278

Escape!

rolled 3 = 3

>>8623278
Instruct them to cease their faggotry in the name of the greater good

rolled 25 = 25

We've come to far to stop now
attack nonlethally

Looks like we're going with escaping.
I still say we should try to save the earth caste guys though.

>>8623278
Well, too late to try for pleasantries. Get in close and kill them to death.

Fucking idiots...

escape and find a place to catch our breath

>>8623278
If we can phase again, do that, and flee. We must exit this room before they recharge the zappy whatever.

Kool-aid man through the wall or cut through the floor.

Pray.

Yeah, let's get out of here.

DONT WASTE ROLLS WHEN SHAS HASN'T ASKED FOR THEM

ESCAPE

rolled 23 = 23

>>8623278

Try to find an alternate exit. Through the floor/ceiling/duct system.

>>8623321
The tau will take care of that for us. Besides, it's not like we've got a medical package in our necron toolkit.

kool aid man your way out of there.

>>8623323
YOU
CUT IT OUT!

>>8623294
>>8623300
>>8623306
I see three votes for escape through an unexpected route (more specifically the floor).

>>8623338
But we're like, seventy kinds of advanced tech!
I'm sure we could do SOMETHING

rolled 10 = 10

Raise your hands placatingly, place staff on floor. Say that the suits and crew activated a self-defense mechanism or something.

Attempt to communicate you wish to make peace.

rolled 16 = 16

>>8623278
I don't know Tau's fancy terms but scream something like:
"STOP IT. I don't want to kill anymore of my brothers."

>>8623356
All seventy kinds are for killing fleshy beings.

>>8623363
Can we do this while we escape?

>>8623362

That and you're still tau. Goddamn I hate the lack of an edit function.

>>8623323
shut up dick, that's not how we roll.

>>8623363
I second this with escaping

rolled 57 = 57

Tell them the Greater Good would allow one to speak instead of this bullshit.

>>8623346
AND WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE US DO? TRY TO BREAK THROUGH THE FUCKING HOLDING CELL WALLS? ALL THAT'LL DO IS GIVE THEM MORE TIME TO FUCKING SHOOT US! ONCE YOU START SOMETHING YOU FUCKING SEE IT TGHROUGH TO THE END! NOW SOME FUCKTARD DECIDED THAT WE SHOUDL TRY TO KILL THEM, SO WE'RE FIGHTING NOW, AND THERE'S NO FUCKING REASON TO STOP UNTIL WE'VE FINISHED THEM ALL OFF, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T GET THEM NOW THEY WILL FOLLOW US AND TRY TO FIND US, AND WE'LL JUST END UP FIGHTING THEM LATER RATHER THAN SOONER.

Yes, before you ask, I am quite angry,.

Your molecular structure shifts ever so slightly, putting you further out of phase with the rest of reality and allowing you to drop through the floor as if it wasn't even there. A split-second of recalibration allows you to expand the effect to encompass the prone form of a nearby earth caste whose vitals are still registering nominal, the limp body joining in your descent as your free arm circles around it.

As your hooves clatter to the deck below, you're given a moment's reprieve before a klaxon begins to wail. You will need to evade pursuit before you can make use of your erstwhile hostage.

First consensus of three or more decides your next course of action.

>>8623394
DIDN'T YOU READ ANYTHING FROM THE LAST QUEST?
XENO WOULD NEVER TRY TO ENDANGER ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE
SHE WAS REASONABLE!

>>8623409
Continue running.

>>8623363
samefag edit:
>"STOP IT. I don't want to harm anymore of my brothers."
(sounds better)

>>8623394
>>8623409

Owned

Run down to an exit, duck into storage area if possible.

rolled 12 = 12

>>8623409
Use the earth caste's face and make a new mask

>>8623409
SAVE EARTH CASTE

>>8623409
MAXIMUM LEG IT

We communicate our terms through the captured Earth Caste.

>>8623409

Quit fucking acting like a hostile, surrender yourself. Attempt to heal the injured.

Goddamn, shas, are you fucking reading this thread?

>>8623409
seal door and exit

>>8623394
That kind of thinking will get us bitch slapped hard with the way we roll. I don't think we have the luck or resources to kill everything in the complex

>>8623409
Excellent; a hostage. Keep that guy close.

Head towards the most likely location of Mr Loudspeaker Voice Leader Dude. You can read Tau signposts, right?

>>8623409
Make sure the Earth Caste is going to be okay.
If he can be moved, take him with us.

>>8623377
Hey, asshole, I'm one of the people who wanted to fucking befriend them. But if you think there's any chance in hell of getting along with them now, you're dreaming. So if you all want to waste time trying to escape and let them shoot us in the back while doing so, be my fucking guest.

continue running till safe

Break into a computer terminal and learn everything you can about capture. Priorty on where they are keeping your drones, Specifically Drone.

find a place to hide and be nice to the hostage maybe we can make at least one friend

Run away is the majority.

>>8623409
Is there any way to heal/stabilize him?

>>8623418
TELL THAT TO THE FUCKERS WHO MADE US TRY TO ESCAPE AND KILL A BUNCH OF INNOCENT TECHIES!

>>8623409
help the one we brought with us

>>8623448
THIS


Also, while interfacing, attempt to change security protocols/clearances, seal all doors, shut the klaxon off, and generally wreak as much nonlethal havoc as possible.

>>8623409

Find an uplink to the Tau computer system. Get the schematics for the Tau base and surrounding area, as well as the circumstances of your capture.

>>8623433
Immediate evidence would indicate that, yes, Shas is indeed reading this thread and doing a reasonable job at combining the disparate voices of /tg/ into a compromise course of action. That last one had "save the Earth caste", "out through a wall", and my own "phase moar" in it.

Stop BAWWWing that you're not the only one with the reigns.

>>8623443
Looks like we're doing pretty good with the escaping to me.

>>8623437
THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU START ATTACKING IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Can we have a clarification for any new members?
Xeno is not a necron.
She is not a rip and tear Space Marine
She is trying her best to stay sane
She wouldn't hurt an innocent person.
SHE IS REASONABLE

>>8623418

Maybe this creature has ceased to be Xeno.

You don't have long before your captors work out where you've escaped to, so the best course of action would be to lie low and evade detection until they turn their attention elsewhere. The longer you're able to keep out of sight and undetected, the more likely they are to expand their perimeter and allow you to move freely within its confines - at least until you're able to slip between their sentries and escape it entirely!

Roll 1d100

Hug Tau
Read Note

>>8623441
Augmenting response to match:
>>8623472
Apply hax liberally. Easier than signposts.

>>8623489
Yeah, escaping and trying to save Earth caste technician.

>>8623492
Actually I hadn't even seen the thread yet when that decision was made.

rolled 56 = 56

>>8623513

rolled 86 = 86

>>8623513

rolled 68 = 68

>>8623513

rolled 70 = 70

>>8623513

>>8623513

Don't forget our Tau buddy!

rolled 91 = 91

>>8623513
Rollin' for hilarious fail

rolled 50 = 50

>>8623513

>>8623525
At least it's not a 90

>>8623433

Xeno is more than Tau now. She is now the Inheritor to the Lady of the Infinite Abyss, Mistress of the Undying Swarm and Reaper of the Earth.

She is eternal, she is beyond mortality and morality. She will do as she sees fit. If we are not treated as a guest among our own kind, we will return the favour with overwhelming force.

She is eternal. She will eventually succumb to the abyssal madness of the lifeless, but for now, we must escape. The Earth Caste will serve our Greater Good well as a hostage.

Lest we have another lapse of judgement and it all ends in bloodshed.

rolled 41 = 41

Excellent rolls everyone. I think our stealth check just turned into shouting "HEY, EVERYONE, I'M NOT HERE OK".

>>8623554
Sure is grimdark in here

>>8623554
>If we are not treated as a guest among our own kind, we will return the favour with overwhelming force.

Which of our own kind are you talking about here?

rolled 97 = 97

>>8623513
Why not phase more and go further away?
At least until we are at ground level

>>8623576
It's almost as if it were the W40K universe.

>>8623554
Tau didn't know any better. And some asses decided to go on a rampage before we could let them know their mistake.

Of course it might not have made a difference.

>>8623592
In the Grim Darkness of the Forty First millenia, there is still the chance of a sunny day.

>>8623502
You are right, and I totally agree with you. However, I doubt the Tau are going to be the same way. We attacked them, and I don't think a simple "I''m sorry" will make up for it. So while we should avoid killing them if we can help it, if it comes to a fight then we should fight. This is why the first consensus decision was such a big thing, because it determined how the Tau would react to us. Since we attacked, they attacked back, and it's going to be very hard if not impossible to fix this.

Jesus christ is it so hard to take the roll out of your email field if there's noone asking for it?

>>8623525


Your hoofbeats echo down the corridor as you attempt to elude your pursuers, keeping out of sight of patrolling kill-teams and static security countermeasures alike - but even with your discretion, you perceive the silent cry of an alarm system being triggered, its encoded alert racing along the datastream to this deck's security center.

Roll 1d100

rolled 44 = 44

>>8623632

>>8623612
Actually technically it was them who struck first. You know, the electrocution thing?

>>8623632
I think we should find the commander and show him our secrets by making him our slave.

>>8623639
huzzah?

Kind of?

>>8623617
Clearly this is the case, else they'd do it.

rolled 100 = 100

>>8623632

Stop the data!

>>8623584

The Tau, of course! That is why we were trying to be so nice to them. Because we're Tau.

>>8623650
SHUT UP

>>8623639
Hooray, below 50!

ok look we stood up and they shocked the shit out of us and then came in and strapped us to a fucking table to scramble our brains so yeah we attacked them well shit i guess we should have scrambled our own brain and saved them the trouble.

>>8623654

good thing someone rolled before me. Gotta get the bad juju out of the RNG

rolled 59 = 59

>>8623632
HAX TIEM

>>8623645
before that even, they bound us up and tried to rape our brains.

To be fair to shas' and the KILL EM ALL people if he had ignored their consensus in favor of the storyline he had in mind would that really be a good habit to get into?

>>8623654
Now if you're going to roll like that... :(

>>8623611

>>8623654
>100

>>8623690
>>8623679

luckily someone eked out a 44

rolled 80 = 80

>>8623632

>>8623674
Could forgive them for that, maybe. They couldn't have known we were different from other Necrons.

You reach out with your machine-sense to intercept the signal, but it's akin to trying to grasp smoke - although you smother it in your grip, it seems to waft through your fingers. The alarm is silenced, but you can't be sure if it made it through to the tau operators at the security center.

>>8623669
Alright, I'll give you that
BUT THE EARTH CASTE GUY WASN'T GOING TO HURT US.
Trying to kill him was just rude

>>8623639
>>8623654
Talk about dodging a bullet. Whew.

>>8623674
We weren't bound at first, only resting on the table. Then we woke up and they shocked us. Still not good enough reason to go KILLMAIMBURN over.

>>8623709
Alright, try to see to the Earth Caste Techie

>>8623709


Is Earth Caste awake? Let's talk to him.

Where are we? Are we in space or still on the planet of the tomb?

>>8623724

Are we talking about the same grimdark 40k universe where you kill maim burn everything just because its suspicious?

>>8623709
SAVE THE EARTH CASTE TECHNICIAN

>>8623669
Hey shit face, they weren't going to scramble our brains. Now I'll admit, I have idea why the fuck they didn't just bind us from the start and why the fuck they shocked us, seems a bit excessive to me, but because of a few idiots we're now killing them.

>>8623736
Shas has not asked for an action. Be patient. Probably still catching up on all the previous suggestions (such as hax) before this alarm interlude.

>>8623709
Hide for now.
Try speaking with the techie.

>>8623748
See, it's 40kids like this, who come in with all their shit about grimdark. Just play it by fucking ear. If shit starts to go down, yeah, we do something. But we're a Necron now, and we can take more than a few shocks. Suck it up and try to fucking communicate, and go along with them. At the least, wait until you're not in the same room as a bunch of fucking battlesuits.

Do we have a face? If we don't have a face we're going to scare the hell out of that tech when he sees us. Easier to empathize with a pretty face and all.

Is the thread autosaging already?

>>8623803
Yes we have a face.
A very cute one, I might add.

>>8623834
possibly. There are a lot of posts in it.

>>8623795
Which, even with our rolls, we destroyed.

The Tau are not Imperium idiots. Show of force. Get /them/ to see the advantage of a nice little equal-footing talk, rather than "LOL TIE YOU DOWN AND BRAINRAPE".

>>8623748
>>8623795

> 40kids

> More common for D&D players to go on massive killing sprees instead of talking

wat.

Goddam grim dark making xeno crazy

Wow.

Shas, next time you run a quest... pay attention to what people other than the KILLMAIMBURNsamefag wants.

Fuck this shit.

rolled 56 = 56

Make a new thread

>>8623920
AYE!

>>8623912
>Oh no, people on the Internet disagree with me! THEY MUST ALL BE THE SAME PERSON, WHO IS CLEARLY STUPID! SAMEFAG! SAAAAAGE!

>>8623935
Killmaimburn is in the minority though

>>8623935
i fail to see sage good sir

>>8623912
Shas'o asked for a first three consensus and the fuckwads beat us with responses, or maybe it was a samefag. Not shas fault though.

>>8623795

I suggested runn till you get somwhere safe and not kill maim burn. Im one of the new 40k kids but that doesent mean that im a retard.

>>8623865
Exactly, they're not Imperium idiots. Which means that if we'd SHOWN them that we were Tau, and what happened, they'd have listened. But no, you didn't even wait to see exactly what they were going to do first. It might have been a simple memory scan FFS! And you're right, they're not idiots. Which is why they'll realize what a huge threat we are and try to kill us. Talking is off the table.

Also, in case you haven't realized yet, low rolls like these are very rare, and depending on them is stupid.

>>8623966
Still, there should be provisions for extremely Out Of Character Suggestions.

>>8623935
It's not that, it's when multiple people want the same OOC thing that gets suspicious.

>>8623972
Yeah, but at least ONE idiot decided to kill maim and burn when we should have TALKED

>>8623973
>Still living under the delusion that they considered us Tau and were willing to listen despite all evidence to the contrary

You manage to phase through one last bulkhead before you're forced to disable the function, lest your molecular structure destabilize completely and scatter you across several orders of valence. By bypassing the door mechanism, you succeed in evading any further detection by logging the action in the facility's access records, thereby giving you a brief period to yourself before the risk of discovery once again becomes to great.

Alone at last, you take stock of yourself and your unfortunate guest. The damage inflicted by the combat suits on the deck above has mostly repaired, but your stock of necrodermis is running dangerously low. Every repair further diminishes your reserves and puts you at risk of sustaining catastrophic damage - and without a connection to your tomb, you doubt that the recall system would phase you out of this place.

The thought sends a chill down your spinal neuroprocessors. Your past brushes with true death still haunt you; it's not an experience you have any desire to repeat, even if you were secure in the knowledge that you'd rematerialize safely in the heart of your tomb. Every death you experience brings you one small step closer to becoming like the others of your adopted kind, soulless and insane, victims of too many long millennia of improper engram replication.

Your companion, meanwhile, has fared much worse. Although you are more than capable of detecting the serious fracture low in the tau's spine, you nonetheless extend your claws to cut away the confining environment suit. Freed from its heavy garb, you're struck by a terrifying realization.

She looks just like you.

>>8623973
>'your secrets will soon be known to us, machine, and in this way you will come to serve the Greater Good... but do not think that I won't order your destruction if you continue to resist.'
Not the more peaceful intentions.

>>8624003
Freak out.

>>8623981
>>8623985
Delicious irony. Clearly, you must be samefags.

rolled 54 = 54

I AM KILL MAIM BURN GUY
I DID NOT SAMEFAG
I SWEAR

>>8624003

> She looks just like you.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>8624037
Aw ya beat me to it

>>8624003
Oh, christ. We're an actual necron; the Tau somehow overlaid this tech's mind on our neural processes in an effort to gain control of our systems.

Do not let on that we suspect this. We need this tech to tell us exactly what they were doing to us in there without biasing her information through our expectation. Still... I don't like it.

help her as best we can

>>8624003
lay body down, make it as comfortable as possible.

>>8624003

Get her to a safe spot, we need to have a little talk

Upon closer inspection, you realize that your unconscious companion's facial structure is far too dissimilar to your own to suggest any familial relation - but the gut-wrenching surprise, in its own strange way, serves to reassure you that you haven't lost your sense of self just yet.

Nonetheless, the earth caste girl is badly injured, far beyond even the ability of tau technology to heal. She may never walk again, and that's supposing she survives an array of life-threatening internal injuries.

Although you stand a chance of doing more harm than good, your nanites are reasonably proficient at repairing damaged tau tissue. You may attempt to save her on a roll of 1d100

>>8624003

Could this be who we were a clone of, or maybe a descendant of the gene donor?

regaurdless, let's get her safe and start talking

>>8624003

How just like us, like every asian is jacky chan like us. Or MY OWN CLONE like us?

>>8624065
>OMG I am jumping to conclusions not supported in the least by evidence! RAWR!

>>8624100

I'm not going to roll because I'm unlucky as fuck, in before she dies, though.

rolled 71 = 71

>>8624100
COME ON

rolled 79 = 79

>>8624100

rolled 45 = 45

>>8624100

>>8624065
...or she's our sister, or at least close enough given that our brain has been repeatedly and thoroughly fucked over the course of this quest and vision is a strange and tricksy beast.

rolled 73 = 73

>>8624100
inb4 100

rolled 25 = 25

lets heal

;_;

>>8624019
But far from a certain death sentence. Especially if we had cooperated. But what's done is done.

rolled 89 = 89

KILL MAIM BURN

>>8624125

NOOOO

Shas, don't kill her!

NICE JOB KILLING THE TAU GIRL GUYS.

>>8624065
Now don't go jumping to conclusions. She could easily be a relative of our original.

Actually, do we even know if our original was killed in the experiments?

>>8624125
hooray we fuckin' killed the poor earth caste! Now they're sure to know our great intentions!

>>8624125
Oh, you just had to try, didn't you. We couldn't just leave her alone, knowing full-well what the dice were like.

And I'm the "DESTROYYY" guy!

>>8624125
Maybe we can stabilise her and get a second( or third or fourth or fifth...) roll?

rolled 82 = 82

>>8624100
A FUCKING MIRACLE

>>8624180
Hey, it worked with Weaver.

>>8624120

>>8624125
>>8624126
>>8624133
>>8624146

I TOTALLY CALLED IT... Though, it's not like it's a hard thing to do, considering the quest's track record for shitty rolls.

>>8624125
>>8624126
Ok, you two can't roll anymore.

WE PROBABLY PARALYZED HER FOR LIFE
SHAME /tg/ SHAME

>>8624194
With our luck, our low rolls will all be when we want to incinerate and eviscerate people.

rolled 10 = 10

>>8624190
fuck me.

look at it this way, with all of these rolls above 50 taking place, there's bound to be a time coming up where we hit a bunch of teens and 20s

>>8624190
>>8624190
Little late dude. And that's a good thing since your roll is worse than the one we have to go with.

>>8624232

>>8624239

You haven't kept track of Tau Quest, have you?

>>8624125

The earth caste spasms beneath your hand as you press your palm to her chest, letting your nanites flow into her limp form. You're able to perceive each of the many millions of cell-sized constructs as they course through her, working diligently to prevent the frail organic's systems from failing entirely. The prognosis doesn't look good, however, the damage far too extensive to correct without considerable augmentation.

Roll 1d100 - degree of success (or failure) determines outcome.

Oh come on people. If we did nothing she'd die anyway. We had a chance, and it didn't work out. Stop bitching at the guy who got the roll and for trying, If we hadn't tried she'd be dead anyway.

rolled 78 = 78

>>8624263

rolled 54 = 54

>>8624263

rolled 26 = 26

>>8624263

FUKKEN ROLLAN

rolled 54 = 54

>>8624263
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

rolled 90 = 90

HOPEFULLY I DON'T FAIL

>>8624239
And given the history of this quest they'll be wasted by people who roll for no reason when a roll isn't required.

here goes nothing

rolled 34 = 34

>>8624263
LET'S DO THIS

>>8624272
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

>>8624272
Game over, the girl's dead.

DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT

SWITCH THE SYSTEM, THE RNG WANTS HIGH ROLLS

>>8624272
You, BANNED from the dice.

Heh, I wish I could do that.

rolled 42 = 42

>>8624263

rolled 72 = 72

KILL MAIM BURN?

>>8624269
Lots of us tried, some of us got better rolls, hence the anger.

rolled 30 = 30

COME ON

STOP ROLLING FUCKTARDS

rolled 10 = 10

IF WE SWITCHED WE'D ONLY GET LOW ROLLS

>>8624272

You can feel her slipping away from you, organs failing one after another, falling like dominoes. A single weak, ragged breath escapes her lips along with a thin trail of cerulean blood. Although she's too weak to vocalize it, you can tell from the look in her dying eyes that she's terrified of you.

The nanites coursing through her heart tick off the slowing beat until it finally stops. For the first time, you have seen death up close... and it sickens you.

>>8624307

More where that came from, I vote we dump this carcass and catch another insect to fondle.....i mean talk to.

rolled 46 = 46

ROLLING ONCE MORE TO ILLUSTRATE MY ANGER AT THE RNG.

rolled 99 = 99

>>8624374
FUCK.

>>8624272
We're a fucking platinum level necron lord (equivalent), that roll should absolutely allow us to saver her.

MOTHER FUCKER

rolled 48 = 48

>>8624374

well fuck. let's at least leave her in a dignified pose.

>>8624374

Noooooo

rolled 83 = 83

>>8624263
HNNNG

>>8624374
Since she's dead. Try to use her skin to fashion a disguise.

>>8624374
Boo :(

>>8624402
My that's an amazing idea. There is no possible way that could go wrong. For sure.

B[

>>8624374
Can we fondle her then?

>>8624402

ummm... we're tau-like as it is.


Maybe we should just give ourselves up peacefully?

>>8624402

Necron Flayed Lord coming right up

graft the necrodermis to spell out im sorry.

>>8624374
>...and it sickens you.
Those of you bitching about BAD END: be happy, we've still got our Taumanity.

>>8624402
Does that actually work?

>>8624374
PUT ON HER HEAVY GARB.
INFILTRATE THE FUCK OUT OF THIS SHITTY PLACE.

rolled 64 = 64

LETS BE PEACEFUL NOW
KILL MAIM BURN

Not if >>8624402 has anything to say about it we don't.

>>8624464
Addendum: We couldn't see here face when she was clothed so it works both way.

See? We try to embrace our own kind, but our attempts are nigh fruitless.

We may be sickened by death at the moment, but I'm sure that will all change soon.

>>8624464
>>8624495

brilliant!

These clothes will be our box!

>>8624464
>>8624495
How intact do you think it is, we cut it off her.

>>8624466
I can imagine it now, a Khorne Berserker going about communicating with nothing but KILL MAIM BURN. And all the people understand him perfectly fine.

"KILL MAIM BURN"

"Sure thing, bro, I'll see ya later at the party."

Well, anyway. She is now irrelevant.

Hacking time. Let's own this facility. Or at least find where Leader Dude is so we can bring this thing to a diplomatic head without having to cut through every last guard in the place like a lost and particularly violent tourist.

fix cloths, dispose of corpse, then put the fixed cloths on

>>8624558
second this notion

>>8624558

This and the clothes

>>8624561
fix corpse, dispose of clothes, put on

I miss having drones.

>>8624530
Come on, we have nanoshit available, if we can (attempt to) fix a broken spine, how hard would it ne to fix some clothes...

>>8624558
This. Who knows, maybe we can actually convince him of our case.

ahahahahahahha! I kid myself.

feed her to the drone foundery

>>8624597
yeah but what happens when someone rolls a 99 on the fix clothes roll?

>>Seconded
Hack and find everything you can

>>8624608
With a roll that bad? Something amusing.

>>8624531
Shouldn't it be MAIM KILL BURN?
My berserker grammar is a little rusted.

rolled 1 = 1

KILL MAIM BURN!
(DOES IT REALLY MATTER?)

>>8624608
CRITICAL HAT FAILURE

>>8624608
We hang ourself accidentally.

>>8624657

you wasted the roll...

You wasted the roll...

>>8624657
nice job wasting that 1

As the earth caste's body lies cooling on the deck, inspiration suddenly dawns upon you! With a whim, your nanites consolidate on the girl's brain, reverberations of electrical impulses sparking weakly within the oxygen-starved grey matter. Time is of the essence, a situation that you've become all too complacent of since your own metamorphosis.

Your constructs congregate in the inactive portions of the girl's brain, forming into increasingly complex patterns as they process the raw organic material to fuel their assembly. In a matter of moments, you detect the first tentative queries of connectivity from the newly fabricated network array, allowing you to interface directly with the earth caste's mind.

Closing your eyes, you plunge into the abyss.

>>8624657

>>8624713

She is ours now.

KILL MAIM BURN KILL
(I FORGOT TO ERASE EMAIL FIELD ;_;

>>8624713
Say "Hello" and smile at her, if that's possible. Try to appear as non-threatening as possible and answer her as friendly as we can.

>>8624713
We'll need our best rolls to save her mind from the dying brain. Gentlemen, do not disappoint me. Unimportant Nameless Tau Girl has to be (somewhat) saved! For Xeno's sanity!

Recommended: Take Xeno tech, use for entirely unintended ends. Upload Tau minds into self. Technological singularity, Chaos-proofed.

Proceed to forcibly upload the entire universe and kill Chaos in this way.

rolled 54 = 54

>>8624755
FOR THE EMPER... no wait...

Just a tip Shas: For opening thread posts, be sure to properly convey Xenu's character so new people don't just see the word Necron and assume Xeno's trying to KILL MAIM BURN everything.

>>8624767
THE IRON MEN SHALL RISE AGAIN

rolled 48 = 48

rolling to put on her suit and infiltrate

A bone-chilling cold envelopes you completely as you sink into darkness, colder even then the deepest depths of the lonely void. You stand on the precipice of true death, a yawning oblivion that consumes everything it touches. The thought of it is incomprehensibly terrifying, reminding you that for all your power, you are still an insignificant thing.

As you fall into that darkness, the cold gradually loses its hold on you and you find yourself standing in a wide, rolling field on a chilly spring morning. The wildflowers have only started to bud, shaking off the last cruel vestiges of winter. The tau stands a short distance away, her back to you.

'I'm dead, aren't I?'

>>8624713

"Hello... Uh, sorry about what happened... I tried to save you, but I kind of fail miserably at things when I needed the most..."

rolled 5 = 5

SAVE HER

rolled 54 = 54

Let's test out our luck.

>>8624776
>convey Xenu's character
i think the problem is that she's was acting too much like Xenu...

rolled 21 = 21

>>8624788
Tell her that she is.